How to find the largest top files and directories on Linux

If you want to find the largest top files and directories on Linux you can use this command

du -a / | sort -n -r | head -n 10

First we use du. It shows the disk usage of your system (files and directories). Next we use the command sort to sort the results by their numerical values -n and in reverse order -r. And last, we use head to limit the output to 10 lines